Recorded answers
36,048 recorded answers
How to approach it
The trick is to treat the prompt as a wide funnel rather than a popularity contest. Begin with the people you know best, then deliberately travel to countries whose politics rarely make headlines and reconstruct a name from a roster you remember. National legislatures publish member lists, so recall a chamber you have read about — a small assembly, a federal upper house, a coalition partner's bench — and pick a single sitting member. Verify mentally that the person holds office now, not a decade ago. Then consider the scoring logic: the puzzle rewards answers that many people can confirm but few will think of, so an accurate, verifiable name from an overlooked country beats a famous one almost every time.
Get a hint
Start at the very top of the executive ladder: heads of government, their deputies and the senior ministers who were in office this week.
A little more
Narrow by chamber instead: a single seat in a national legislature is enough, so think of backbenchers, whips and committee chairs as well as speakers.
One step further
Go for depth over fame: a member of a small national assembly or a junior minister in a country that rarely makes the news usually scores higher than a household-name premier.
Reveal answers 36,048
- Kim Jung-kwanDeep Cut85points
- Kim KataguiriDeep Cut85points
- Kim Ki-woongDeep Cut85points
- Kim Kum-cholDeep Cut85points
- Kim Kyo-heungDeep Cut85points
- Kim Kyong-junDeep Cut85points
- Kim LeadbeaterDeep Cut85points
- Kim Mi-aeDeep Cut85points
- Kim Min-jeonDeep Cut85points
- Kim Min-seokDeep Cut85points
- Kim Moon-sooDeep Cut85points
- Kim MuñozDeep Cut85points
- Kim Nam-geunDeep Cut85points
- Kim Nam-heeDeep Cut85points
- Kim PateDeep Cut85points
- Kim Pyong-hoDeep Cut85points
- Kim Sang-hoonDeep Cut85points
- Kim Sang-wookDeep Cut85points
- Kim SanghwanDeep Cut85points
- Kim SchmulianDeep Cut85points
- Kim SchrierDeep Cut85points
- Kim Seok-kiDeep Cut85points
- Kim Seong-hoeDeep Cut85points
- Kim Seung-suDeep Cut85points
- Kim Seung-wonDeep Cut85points
- Kim So-heeDeep Cut85points
- Kim Song-ryongDeep Cut85points
- Kim Sun-gyoDeep Cut85points
- Kim Sung ChanDeep Cut85points
- Kim Sung-duDeep Cut85points
- Kim Sung-jinDeep Cut85points
- Kim Sung-whanDeep Cut85points
- Kim Sung-wonDeep Cut85points
- Kim SunminDeep Cut85points
- Kim Tae-hoDeep Cut85points
- Kim Tae-nyeonDeep Cut85points
- Kim Tae-seonDeep Cut85points
- Kim Tok-hunDeep Cut85points
- Kim Wi-sangDeep Cut85points
- Kim Won-iDeep Cut85points
- Kim Woo YoungDeep Cut85points
- Kim Yea-jiDeep Cut85points
- Kim Yong HwanDeep Cut85points
- Kim Yong-manDeep Cut85points
- Kim Yong-minDeep Cut85points
- Kim Yong-taeDeep Cut85points
- Kim Young-baeDeep Cut85points
- Kim Young-hoDeep Cut85points
- Kim Young-hwanDeep Cut85points
- Kim Young-jinDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is driven by rarity rather than prominence. The single hundred-point answer, Michael Dobbs, sits alone at the top precisely because almost nobody else named that individual, while the enormous 85-point band contains tens of thousands of sitting members drawn from national chambers across every continent, from A B M Mosharrof Hossain and A. A. Rahim to Aaron Bean and Abdoulaye Diop. Those answers were correct, current and specific enough to satisfy the checker, yet common enough among players that they landed in the second tier. Below them, the 60-point group of 328 answers was presumably made up of figures who were either extremely well known, slightly stale in office, or generically described in a way that reduced their value. The lesson is blunt: a verifiable backbencher from a legislature nobody discusses is worth more than a prime minister everyone recognises, and a precise full name outperforms a vague one.